Teleseisms as estimators of experimental long-period site amplification: Application to the Po plain (Italy) for the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki (Japan) earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2541-2556

  Massa, Marco ^a   Augliera, Paolo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL BASINS; AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; INTER-DISTANCES; POLARIZATION PHENOMENA; RESONANCE PERIOD; SITE AMPLIFICATION; SPECTRAL RATIOS; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFICATION;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; AMPLITUDE; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; P-WAVE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SITE INVESTIGATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRAVEL TIME;

ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EID: 84884969859     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120164     Document Type: Article

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